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BARTHOLOMÉE Oedipe sur la route

Not so long ago, many new operas sought gravitas by basing themselves on wordy epics by known contemporary novelists centred...

Reviewed by Mike Ashman in issue: AW2015

Helmut C Jacobs: Boleros and Fandangos

This album follows an earlier recording by the same artist, accordionist Helmut C Jacobs, devoted to the fandango. The current...

Reviewed by Philip Kennicott in issue: AW2015

SILVESTROV Piano Sonatas

Silvestrov’s three numbered piano sonatas span 20 years, from 1960 to 1979, and together say much about the evolution of...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: AW2015

SCHUNCKE Piano Music

Poor old Ludwig Schuncke! He makes Mozart and Schubert seem long-lived, dying of tuberculosis in 1834, two weeks shy of...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW2015

SCHUMANN Davidsbündlertänze. Fantasie. Geisterveriationen

The young British pianist Cordelia Williams turns her attention to Schumann for her latest recording, combining two established masterpieces with...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: AW2015

PASQUINI Suites and Variations

Bernardo Pasquini (1637-1710) is a shadowy one all right. A contemporary in Rome of Corelli and Alessandro Scarlatti, he mixed...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: AW2015

LISZT Meyerbeer Opera Transcriptions

Volume 40 of Naxos’s complete piano music of Liszt usefully combines all but one of the major solo Meyerbeer transcriptions....

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2015

GINASTERA Milonga. Piano Sonata 1. 3 Pieces

François-Xavier Poizat, a 26-year-old French-Swiss pianist, could hardly have produced a more dazzling tribute to Ginastera, Argentina’s foremost composer. He...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: AW2015

CHOPIN 24 Preludes

In the past 12 months alone these pages have noted new recordings of Chopin’s Preludes by Ingrid Fliter, Daniel Trifonov,...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW2015

Maria Perrotta Plays Chopin

Maria Perrotta offers a richly comprehensive and demanding live Chopin programme on her new disc from Italian Decca. For one...

Reviewed by Bryce Morrison in issue: AW2015

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